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Johan Treutiger

Partner

Head, Strategy & Organization Practice, Nordics

Sweden

Johan helps industry, investors and public sector clients succeed in the changing business environment driven by digitalization and disruptive technologies.

Areas of Focus

Education

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich)
M.Sc., Management, Technology and Economy
Chalmers University of Technology
M.Sc., Management and Economics of Innovation, B.Sc., Industrial Engineering and Management
University of Gothenburg
M.Sc., Financial Management, B.Sc., Business Administration and Economics
Stanford University
Graduate Courses, Modeling and Design of Organizations
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Courses, High technology management

Past Experience

We Know IT
Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board
Goldman Sachs
Analyst

Johan is a Partner at Arthur D. Little, based in Stockholm. He is the leader of our Strategy & Organization Practice in the Nordic area and the head of our Global Competence Center of Digital and Analytics.

Johan typically serves large-industry clients, public sector clients, and investors, helping them succeed in the changing business environment driven by digitalization, disruptive technologies, and globalization. He has led more than 60 projects in strategy, innovation, and transformation at Arthur D. Little.

Examples of his work include digitalization strategy, smart-city strategies, digital transformation programs, organizational overhaul, and innovation transformation programs.

Clients value Johan’s ability to shift perspectives from visionary to detailed and actionable, to work seamlessly in the client’s organization at all levels, and to have an “owner” and entrepreneurial mindset.

Johan has an entrepreneurial background, with a passion for building businesses from ideas, and is the founding owner of an innovative IT consultancy with over 30 employees in four Swedish cities.

RETHINKING PRODUCT CONNECTIVITY
Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
Rethinking product connectivity
In a data-driven world, product manufacturers have a stark choice – either digitize to become more flexible and customer-centric or be sidelined by nimbler competitors. They need to embrace the transformative opportunities that data and the Internet of Things bring to add value to their offerings and change their business models. All businesses understand the vital importance of collecting, analyzing, and acting on data to enable: New business models, such as offering as-a-service or outcome-based pricing, and entering the Industrial Metaverse
Find out more
Staying ahead of the curve
Staying ahead of the curve
The future is no longer predictable. Businesses constantly face the challenge to interpret and plan for the impact of overarching trends, such as sustainability/climate change, geopolitical instability, resource scarcity, digitalization, and disruptive new technologies. Today’s CEOs must master resilience and growth in a world of uncertainty to ensure that they stay ahead of the curve. In this Viewpoint, we describe a systematic five-pillar approach to address this complexity.
Find out more
ESG: Last call to take effective action
ESG: Last call to take effective action
How innovation unlocks economic opportunities in a volatile world
Find out more
Navigating the sustainability journey – a new scenario-based approach to decision-making
Navigating the sustainability journey
Sustainability is one of the few topics that is high on the agenda across all companies, sectors, and countries. Eighty percent of companies in a recent global ADL study[1] had a sustainability strategy in place, and a further 12 percent were developing one.
Find out more
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Building the Smart Hospital Agenda
Vikas Kharbanda, Dr. Ulrica Sehlstedt, Johan Treutiger
A number of factors have been contributing to a rapid change in care delivery models world-wide. Increasing cost of care, need to improve access to care, inherent complexity in treatment options and increasing involvement of patients in the care delivery cycles - all of these factors have fostered an environment where hospitals or other care delivery institutions have started shifting focus from treating episodes to managing overall health of patients, while focusing on overall value of care rather than efficiency.
Find out more
Industrial goods & services
E-Learning – A tool for successful change
Niklas Brundin, Wolf-Dieter Hoppe, Johan Treutiger
Today’s global trends, such as high speed of innovation and technological change, require manufacturing companies to be agile and quickly implement sustainable changes to survive.
Find out more
The Digital Nation – Lessons in building a successful digital economy
Martin Glaumann, Johan Treutiger, Agron Lasku
The pandemic has turbocharged digitalization across industries and countries, stress testing existing national strategies and bringing any gaps and shortcomings into sharp focus. Drawing on the example of digital leader Sweden, this article focuses on the wider lessons that every country can learn, and the capabilities required to build effective and successful digital nations moving forward.
Find out more
Four key questions to consider for successful digital transformation
Johan Treutiger, Lokesh Dadhich
The majority of “analog-native” companies are struggling to become digitally mature enough to compete with “digital-native” rivals. How can they adapt strategies, business models, organizational structures and capabilities to remain competitive and relevant? This article focuses on the four key questions analog-native companies need to address if they are to successfully embrace digital transformation.
Find out more
Turning customers into subscribers – How to successfully make the shift
Johan Treutiger, Niklas Brundin, Greg Smith, Rick Eagar
What customers expect from manufacturing businesses is changing, moving away from outright purchase- to subscription-based models. This offers opportunities and risks for traditional players, providing them with access to greater customer insight, but also lowering barriers for competitors. Based on case examples, this article looks at how manufacturers can make the shift to subscriptionbased businesses.
Find out more

Johan is a Partner at Arthur D. Little, based in Stockholm. He is the leader of our Strategy & Organization Practice in the Nordic area and the head of our Global Competence Center of Digital and Analytics.

Johan typically serves large-industry clients, public sector clients, and investors, helping them succeed in the changing business environment driven by digitalization, disruptive technologies, and globalization. He has led more than 60 projects in strategy, innovation, and transformation at Arthur D. Little.

Examples of his work include digitalization strategy, smart-city strategies, digital transformation programs, organizational overhaul, and innovation transformation programs.

Clients value Johan’s ability to shift perspectives from visionary to detailed and actionable, to work seamlessly in the client’s organization at all levels, and to have an “owner” and entrepreneurial mindset.

Johan has an entrepreneurial background, with a passion for building businesses from ideas, and is the founding owner of an innovative IT consultancy with over 30 employees in four Swedish cities.

RETHINKING PRODUCT CONNECTIVITY
Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
Rethinking product connectivity
In a data-driven world, product manufacturers have a stark choice – either digitize to become more flexible and customer-centric or be sidelined by nimbler competitors. They need to embrace the transformative opportunities that data and the Internet of Things bring to add value to their offerings and change their business models. All businesses understand the vital importance of collecting, analyzing, and acting on data to enable: New business models, such as offering as-a-service or outcome-based pricing, and entering the Industrial Metaverse
Find out more
Staying ahead of the curve
Staying ahead of the curve
The future is no longer predictable. Businesses constantly face the challenge to interpret and plan for the impact of overarching trends, such as sustainability/climate change, geopolitical instability, resource scarcity, digitalization, and disruptive new technologies. Today’s CEOs must master resilience and growth in a world of uncertainty to ensure that they stay ahead of the curve. In this Viewpoint, we describe a systematic five-pillar approach to address this complexity.
Find out more
ESG: Last call to take effective action
ESG: Last call to take effective action
How innovation unlocks economic opportunities in a volatile world
Find out more
Navigating the sustainability journey – a new scenario-based approach to decision-making
Navigating the sustainability journey
Sustainability is one of the few topics that is high on the agenda across all companies, sectors, and countries. Eighty percent of companies in a recent global ADL study[1] had a sustainability strategy in place, and a further 12 percent were developing one.
Find out more
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Building the Smart Hospital Agenda
Vikas Kharbanda, Dr. Ulrica Sehlstedt, Johan Treutiger
A number of factors have been contributing to a rapid change in care delivery models world-wide. Increasing cost of care, need to improve access to care, inherent complexity in treatment options and increasing involvement of patients in the care delivery cycles - all of these factors have fostered an environment where hospitals or other care delivery institutions have started shifting focus from treating episodes to managing overall health of patients, while focusing on overall value of care rather than efficiency.
Find out more
Industrial goods & services
E-Learning – A tool for successful change
Niklas Brundin, Wolf-Dieter Hoppe, Johan Treutiger
Today’s global trends, such as high speed of innovation and technological change, require manufacturing companies to be agile and quickly implement sustainable changes to survive.
Find out more
The Digital Nation – Lessons in building a successful digital economy
Martin Glaumann, Johan Treutiger, Agron Lasku
The pandemic has turbocharged digitalization across industries and countries, stress testing existing national strategies and bringing any gaps and shortcomings into sharp focus. Drawing on the example of digital leader Sweden, this article focuses on the wider lessons that every country can learn, and the capabilities required to build effective and successful digital nations moving forward.
Find out more
Four key questions to consider for successful digital transformation
Johan Treutiger, Lokesh Dadhich
The majority of “analog-native” companies are struggling to become digitally mature enough to compete with “digital-native” rivals. How can they adapt strategies, business models, organizational structures and capabilities to remain competitive and relevant? This article focuses on the four key questions analog-native companies need to address if they are to successfully embrace digital transformation.
Find out more
Turning customers into subscribers – How to successfully make the shift
Johan Treutiger, Niklas Brundin, Greg Smith, Rick Eagar
What customers expect from manufacturing businesses is changing, moving away from outright purchase- to subscription-based models. This offers opportunities and risks for traditional players, providing them with access to greater customer insight, but also lowering barriers for competitors. Based on case examples, this article looks at how manufacturers can make the shift to subscriptionbased businesses.
Find out more

More About Johan
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich)
    M.Sc., Management, Technology and Economy
  • Chalmers University of Technology
    M.Sc., Management and Economics of Innovation, B.Sc., Industrial Engineering and Management
  • University of Gothenburg
    M.Sc., Financial Management, B.Sc., Business Administration and Economics
  • Stanford University
    Graduate Courses, Modeling and Design of Organizations
  • University of California, Berkeley
    Graduate Courses, High technology management
  • We Know IT
    Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board
  • Goldman Sachs
    Analyst